The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-13
SOUTHERN GIEANINGS,

In the course OF a recent violent storm
On the Florida coast an eleven foot alliga.
tor crawled out Of the st. Johns river
where it flows into the sea and started
out to find shelter among the sand dunes.
| He was captured alive by fishermen, and
will be sent to the sub-tropical exhibition.
Two "honest farmers" of Kentucky are
the latest victims of misplaced confidence.
| The unsophisticated grangers were offered
| $1,000 worth of works of art resembling
| genuine money of the United States so
| closely that other graugers might bs con-
| tidently expected to take il good cur
rency. The price of the ornamental paper
was 500, AMI the honest farmers paid
500 down and deposited 800 in the ex-
press Office. Whom the box supposed to
contain the art treasures arrived, only
common brick was found in It. The dis
appointed agriCulturists are suing the ex-
press company for the 800.
The official returns from thirty.three
counties in Tennessee with the balance
semi official, give a majority of .i,I7s
against the prohibitory amendment. The
chairman Of the state Liquor Dealers
Association, now claims a majority of 3G,
go.
a four-legged chicken was born neal
LeXing ton, Miss, one day recently.
The oyster trade on the Mississippi coast
enjoying great boom.
Virginia winter apples are scarce, an6
are selling high.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has con.
tiTmed the death sentence OF Bill Patterson.
who helped Turner kill Jennie Bowman.
One of the boasts III an interior town in
Florida is that it can SNOW up more people
to NEE; trains than any place OF its size
in the South.
H. u 4 4
is being urged to take steps looking to
placing boat in the river at that place.
| The new Y. NJ. c. \. Hall at Atlanta,
Ga, is one of the haudsomest buildin g in
that city. 1t cost over 100000.
The editor OF the Brookhayen (Mi's.)
NetrS says; "rhe only thing that keeps
our spirits up now is to 81: in oar window
and sing out: All there as the girls pass
down the avenue"
A negro. sentenced TO five years' lm2riS-
onmeut for larceny, committed suicide in
The court room at Chattanooga, Tenn,
when sentence was pronounced against
him.
The grand jury recently or ganized In
Gwinnett CoIntv, ia, was composed o.
sixteen MethodistS, six BaptiSts, and one
liberal, yet it ignored more complaints
than any grand jury the county ever had.
IdlluutS Nt'e the CA ptidt VI L lO!ltlu Is no"
dry. The licenses have all expire |, and
the ProhibitiDnts-7 havs Influenced the
County Commissioners not b renew them,
so that it is impossible to set a drink OF
whisky in the city.
4 safe in the store of Walter Bros. al
Dover, Tenn, was broken open few
nights ago and robbed of 5000. Three
uspiciouslooking men. who have been
hanging about the place ana who disap-
peared after the robbery, are suspected,
and the officers are after them.
Two men were fishing on the Kinche-
foone creek. in Georgia, few days ago,
when one got a bite and saw his cork 20
down like shot. He began pulling in,
and with the assistance of his companion
succeeded, after a good deal Of difficulty,
in bringing out and killing turtle that
weighed two hundred pounds.
Joe Edwards, of Richmond, Va, can
stay under water one minute and thirty
seconds. During his life Joe has gotten
more than one hundred bodies out Of the
waters around Richmond He has been
there since 1851, and for eighteen years
has been in business around the wharves.
In the winter Joe opeuS oysters; in the
summer he dives.
The County Jail of Coffee County, Ca,
was burned to the ground few nights
ago. A negro, who was incarcerated
therein, attempted to burn out a passage.
The fire bafiled him however, and burned
the entire building. His charred body
was found in the ruins.
John Hester, negro, went opOssum
hunting near Atlanta, Ga, few night
ago. At the same time his wife went to
preaching. TheY locked up the house,
leaving two children, aged six and eight
years, prisoners within. When they re-
tlrned they found the house burned down
and the charred remains of the children in
the ruins
Twenty miles of the Powell > Valley
(Tenn.) railroad has been let. Dirt was
broken last Saturday, and the con tractors
now have five hundred men at work. The
road runs from Knoxville to Cumberland
Gap, distance of sixty five miles.
A difficulty arose q few days ago be-
tween Dudley Handley aud Alex Richard
son, two of the colored deck crew OF the
steamer Helena, which resulted in Rich
ardson being shot and instantly killed.
The tragedy was enacted while thu boat
was taking on freight at Fritz's landing III
Crittenden County, Tenn. After killing
Richardson, Handley fed into the woods
and had not been arrest ed.
Henry Duke, a well-knOwn farmer il
Ballard County, KY, trade faI ms with {
gentleman from the adjoining county OF
Carlisle few days ago. Thinking he was
wors Ted in the trade he wanted to rue it
This was refused, and Duke broole / over
his trouble until he became violently in
sane. subsequently he assaulted Thomas,
with whom he had traded, with an aX and
came near killing him. Ddke has beel
taken to the asylum for treatment.
A collision occurred on the Cincinnati
Southern road one mile south of Oakdale,
Tenn, a few days ago, completely wreck
ing both locomotives and throwing about
twenty cars from the track.
Z. S. johnson, of Chicago, better known
as the express robber of Memphis, was set
at liberty i'll Chattanooga, few days ago.
In 1919 he was arrested at Memphis for an
express robbery, and sentenced to twenty
one years in the penitentiary. He is very
intelligent man, and during the year 1884,
while serving his term, is sail to have
framed bill that has resulted in his lib
erty. The bill, which became a law, short
ened the good time allowed prisoners. His
sentence had already been committed to
sixteen years for services during fire in
in the penitentiary.
Cleveland is going to Atlanta.
John Hall, an escaped convict, was ara
rested at CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, O few DAYS